1127 Impossible to anticipate more skillfully the retort that Mordecai
should have honored the king's favorite.

1135 convert de votre pourpre makes the offence almost personal to the
king.

1136 For jour, see l. 1039, N.

1141 achever = "to finish." Tr. "come down in thy fullness."

1146 crédit, see l. 171.

1151 vos ennemis aussitôt massacrés, another Lat. construction. These
lines are a very skillful revelation of Haman's character; he attempts
to bribe the queen by the offer of that which would seem most desirable
to himself.

1162 en. See App. V, ii. D.

1168 The king interprets Haman's attitude as an attempt at violence.

1175 repaisse. Cf. Verg. Aen. VIII, 265: nequeunt expleri corda tuendo.

1190 est expiré (on the analogy of _est mort_), for _a expiré_, which
would be impossible in classical French poetry. See App. I, Hiatus.
The result is more stress on the state, instead of on the action.

1193 Cf. Juvenal, x. 66.
_Seianus ducitur unco